How WebAssembly is changing the Web and what it means for you
summary
WebAssembly compiles C/C++/Rust (and now PHP) into small binary modules that browsers fetch, decode and instantiateStreaming to run with much less parsing overhead; examples include a robot animation that sees “striking” speedups and full Windows and old-game ports that actually run in-page. Tooling: Emscripten for large C/C++ ports, simple experiments via WASM fiddle. Memory is a linear memory with bounds checks, no GC yet and threads postponed; Blazor demonstrates C# UIs running client-side.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 1:29Traditional multi-target compilation
- 1:43Multi-target compilation with WebAssembly
- 6:28Performance comparison
- 10:16Module imports & exports
- 10:54Linear memory
- 11:56Working with strings
- 12:41Loading WebAssembly
- 19:51React vs. Blazer
